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Thanks to the many authors and contributors involved in the following open source projects, for making the free tools, for answering questions, and for writing good docs. We reused each of these programs to make this book.

Thanks to Norman Walsh [docbook] and Bob Stayton [docbookxsl] for developing and documenting a superb system of publishing tools. Thanks to the rest of the docbook community for help and guidance.

Thanks to the volunteers @debian.org for keeping testing up to date and still stable enough to be a productive development platform. Thanks to irc.freenode.net for bringing together a lot of good brains.

Thanks to Emily Ezust for wordsmithing skills and for getting us started with Qt in the first place. Thanks to the reviewers who provided input and valuable feedback on the text: Johan Thelin, Stephen Dewhurst, Hal Fulton, David Boddie, Andy Shaw, and Jasmin Blanchette. Thanks to Matthias Ettrich for the vision and motivation. Thanks to the Trolls@Nokia for writing good docs, producing QtCreator, answering questions on the mailing lists, and porting Qt over to mobile devices.

Thanks to the editorial and production staff at Prentice Hall for their meticulous reading of our book and for helping us to find the many errors that were distributed throughout the text.

Thanks to Chris Craig, Chris Gaal, and the other gurus @ics.com for feedback and technical assistance. Thanks to ics.com for bringing together a team of Qt experts who are a pleasure to work with.

Finally, thanks to Suffolk University, a source of great support throughout this project. Thanks also to the students who took CMPSC 331/608 using the evolving versions of this book since fall 2003 and to our colleagues at many universities who used various forms of our book for their classes and who provided us with a stream of valuable bug reports and feedback.